Abacus takes Raymond Blanc around the world Amcomri Media Group-owned Abacus Media Rights has acquired international distribution rights (excluding the UK) to cookery series Simply Raymond Blanc. The show which launched on ITV in the UK on 30 January is produced by Rock Oyster Media and available as either a 10 x 60-minute or 6 […]
Nine Network in Australia, Movistar+ in Spain and public broadcasters across the Nordics have all struck pre-sales deals for BBC Studios’ new blue chip natural history series A Perfect Planet. The five-parter is produced by Silverback Films for BBC One in the UK and US partner Discovery, with China’s Tencent Penguin Pictures, ZDF in Germany, […]
VIA orders Armoza’s ‘lean production’ dating format South African lifestyle channel VIA has ordered a local version of Date In Reverse from ITV Studios-owned Armoza Formats. The format, which was created by Volley Formats, Shenhar Productions and Daniella Slavik, follows two singles who get to know each other by experiencing a relationship’s most meaningful milestones […]
The Killing producer Piv Bernth is adapting hit Swedish crime novel Blackwater for broadcaster SVT with ITV Studios handling international sales. Sweden’s SVT has commissioned a six-part TV adaptation of Kerstin Ekman’s novel Blackwater from Bernth’s Apple Tree Productions. The series will be coproduced with ARD Degeto in Germany and Filmpool Nord, supported by the MEDIA […]
TVF sells Arrow’s Boeing 737 Max doc Factual distributor TVF International has struck a number of sales for Arrow Media’s documentary The Boeing 737 Max: What Went Wrong?. The 1 x 60-minute special for Channel 4 has been acquired by Welt in Germany, TV2 Norway, Medialaan Belgium, SVT Sweden, and Nine Network in Australia. The […]
Ricky Zoom lands in Nordics NRK in Norway and SVT in Sweden have struck deals to acquire preschool animated series Ricky Zoom from Entertainment One (eOne). NRK and SVT, which will debut the first season from November and spring 2020 respectively, join a growing list of broadcasters to have picked up the show including Nickelodeon […]
Sky Arts in the UK, US streamer Hulu and SBS in Australia are among buyers of a documentary about Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and its sequel The Testaments. Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power (1 x 92 minutes and 1 x 78 minutes) follows the famous […]
YLE in Finland, Sweden’s SVT and AXN Mystery in Japan are among international buyers of BBC Studios’ forthcoming feel-good crime drama The Mallorca Files. The show was the first production greenlit for Cosmopolitan Pictures, the prodco founded by former BBC Studios drama boss Ben Donald in 2014, and has been created with Clerkenwell Films. The […]
SVT in Sweden, Denmark’s DR, Telefonica in Spain and Norway’s NRK are among a raft of broadcasters to have struck pre-sale deals for BBC Studios’ natural history show Seven Worlds, One Planet. The show, which has been created by BBCS’ Natural History Unit and is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, has also been picked up […]
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has commissioned a six-part design competition series. Made In Sweden will be produced by Banijay Group-owned prodco Mastiff Sweden, and is to follow amateur craftsmen vying to be the best in the country. The show, which is to premiere this autumn, will find contestants using a range of materials — including ceramics, […]
